
The legend of Johnny Ringo is just that.
Ringo was born in Indiana, not Texas. He dropped out of school at age 14; he was not a college grad (or attendee) and he couldn’t speak Latin.
And his fast gun reputation isn’t supported by the record. He and a friend gunned down an unarmed man in September 1875. He may have been involved in another killing the next month—of another unarmed man. There’s no evidence Ringo put a fatal bullet in anyone else.
Except himself, in a fit of drunken depression in July 1882.
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Mark Boardman is the features editor for True West Magazine as well as the editor of The Tombstone Epitaph. He also serves as pastor for Poplar Grove United Methodist Church in Indiana.